40Ar/39Ar ages of detrital white mica constrain the Cenozoic development of the intracontinental Qaidam Basin, China

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1522-1534

  Rieser, Andrea B ^a,b   Liu, Yongjiang ^c   Genser, Johann ^a   Neubauer, Franz ^a   Handler, Robert ^a   Friedl, Gertrude ^a   Ge, Xiao Hong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Denudation; Geochronology; Intramontane basin; Provenance; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; DETRITAL WHITE MICA; PROVENANCE; SINISTRAL SLIP; SUTURE ZONE;

EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; LANDFORMS; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

MICA;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; DENUDATION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; INTRAMONTANE BASIN; MICA; PROVENANCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI;

EID: 33750993482     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25962.1     Document Type: Article

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